| Our Hidden Lives (2005) (TV) | Sarah Parish "In her role as a diarist during the months of austerity in the UK immediately after the end of WW2, Parish smokes in eight different scenes. She recounts a list of everyday items in short supply, with cigarettes being mentioned twice, indicating their importance to her. Mostly she uses tailor-made cigarettes, but is at one stage reduced to rolling her own. The character is portrayed as a dedicated smoker, coughing as she reaches over to light yet another Craven A: 'I calculate that I spend £18 a year on a habit bad for my health that I cannot break - because I don't want to.' Given prices at the time, that equates to consumption of a mere 20-a-day"
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